The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 97
There came to him a dream in which he was surrounded by a band of merry children.
Who acts: band · What happens: come, surround · To what, where: dream, Musai
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 came | expl |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 surrounded | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dream | acl:relcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 band | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 band | det |
| 14 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 children | amod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 band | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a dream | Musai | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | a band of merry children | Musai | in a dream | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination in which=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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